A Variety of News

THE commencement speaker at the Tuck School graduation exercises on June 3 will be Sigurd S. Larmon '14, chairman of the board of Young & Rubicam, New York. Mr. Larmon, a former Trustee of the College and president of the Alumni Council, will have as his topic "The Role of the Businessman in the Years Ahead." President Dickey will present M.B.A. degrees to 71 men in the second-year class of the business school.

Another guest speaker as the 193 rd academic year comes to its close will be Rear Admiral Joseph H. Wellings, USN, commandant of the First Naval District, who will address the 110 senior ROTC officer candidates at the commissioning ceremonies on June 9, the day before Commencement. Admiral Wellings, who until recently was vice director of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, will commission the Navy and Marine Corps cadets. Air Force commissions will be presented by Lt. General Thomas S. Moorman Jr., vice commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces, whose son, Thomas S. Moorman III '62, will be one of the Air Force cadets. The Army commissions will be presented by Lt. Col. Joseph W. A. Whitehorne III, Professor of Military Science at Dartmouth.

Jerome Robbins, noted director and choreographer, has been named to the Hopkins Center Theater Advisory Group, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Moss Hart, playwright and director. Mr. Robbins won an Oscar this year for his direction of the film, West Side Story, but this was simply one more distinction in a theatrical career that he began as a "hoofer." A star of the Ballet Theatre, he created the dance sequences for CallMe Madam and The King and I, directed Pajama Game and Peter Pan, and also staged a number of serious ballets.

Two new members of the Hopkins Center Music Advisory Group, recently announced, are the composer Elliot Carter and the pianist Glenn Gould. Fourteen other members of the group were listed in last month's issue.

With the Class of 1962 departing via graduation, the Dartmouth Admissions Office has its mind on the Class of 1966 entering next fall. The incoming freshmen will number close to the target of 800, according to Edward T. Chamberlain '36, director of admissions. They might, he admits, go up to 810 but not over that. Only a dozen men from the waiting list could be included after all the acceptance replies were in by May 1.

Thayer School is planning to publish a collection of historical letters dealing with its founding in 1871. The booklet will contain letters, from 1867 to 1871, that passed between General Sylvanus Thayer, founder of the school, President Asa Dodge Smith of Dartmouth, and Prof. Robert D. Fletcher, director of the school during its first 47 years. Publication of the booklet has been made possible by a gift of $2000 from Miss Mary Fletcher of Hanover, daughter of Professor Fletcher.

Among the Dartmouth student groups winning national and regional honors this spring were a Dartmouth mathematics team, the debaters, and the Dartmouth NROTC rifle team. In the 22nd annual William Lowell Putnam math competition, engaged in by 192 colleges and universities, the Dartmouth team took fifth place behind Michigan State, M.I.T., Cal Tech, and Harvard, in that order.

The Dartmouth debate team won top honors in the Eastern Forensic Association tournament at Worcester, Mass., in early May. The Forensic Union has won 67.8% of its debate tournaments this year, acquiring 22 trophies along the way.

The five-man Dartmouth NROTC rifle team won the 13 th annual First Naval District championship on April 28 by scoring 915 out of a possible 1000, edging Brown and dropping twoyear champion M.I.T. to third place.